Team management

Managers Are Useless – Until They Aren’t

Managers, Building Remote Culture Starts With You

5 Ways Empathy Makes You A Better Manager

Beyond The UI: What Managers Need To Understand About Frontend Engineers

Why Great Engineering Teams Need Great Tech Leads

Conducting Your Symphony: How To Manage Your Engineering Orchestra

Who’s In Your Engineering Orchestra

Not User-Facing, But User-Saving: What Backend Engineers Actually Do

How To Master One-On-Ones

Build a Feedback Loop That Actually Changes How You Lead

The Power of Two Pizzas: Why Jeff Bezos Limits Teams to 5–7

In his book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,“ Brad Stone writes about a counterintuitive view that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has: communication is

Why Your Startup Should Use Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents

Documents and collaboration are a huge part of any business, especially a technical startup. In a startup, everything from legal documents to meeting notes and feature descriptions need to be

Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP?

A prospective client of mine recently told me that his biggest struggle as a founder was dealing with procrastination. Procrastination happens when you have a task but it’s scary,

What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team

A team must be small to remain agile. The smaller your team, the fewer instances of miscommunication you’ll have. Plus, it’ll be easier for you to resolve issues

Effective communication with designers

As a manager, you might struggle to communicate the vision you have in your head with a designer. It might look like designers come from another planet but they are

How do you lead a development team without any technical expertise?

The incompetent manager According to Laurence Peter research made in 1969, every employee is promoted until she reaches her level of incompetence. In other words, if someone is good at

Managing the risk of indispensable employees

Imagine that your airplane is landing and something goes wrong with one of its hydraulic systems — a wing is not moving or landing gear is not operating correctly. It'

Tips for better communication between designers and developers

Creating an outstanding user experience requires an incredible amount of hard work and skills. Moreover, a coordinated effort of the whole team is the only way to deliver the application